I haven't had a good SOD in over a year I think they are all pretty much from sub up to OD in amount, mostly in the double sub range.

Tuesday was like a decent day from a few years ago though both in number and OD number. Nice, but I'll believe it is more than a one off when it repeats a few more times in less than a few months.

The monthly total seems about on par for what it has been lately.

I guess it really depends on how much this pushes buyers into subs and what the RC they give us for the sale - of course it should at a minimum be what the RC was for the 2, 4, and 6 credit sales.

It looks like now the credit prices are S - 1, M-2, ML -3 up to XXL at 6 and then XXL tiff at 10. No notice of what happens to that.

I suppose we just need to brace ourselves for more "exciting news", although if they get much more exciting they won't be worth even checking for sales anymore.

No. As far as I know I don't have a Fotolia account - except when I applied once when they were offering to match downloads they said that option was only open to people that didn't already have a FT acct. I find the stats available to Adobe contributors to be pretty lacking.

I threw most of my photos up there - they are in my "upload when I have a heap of images ready and some time free" category. It is pretty easy to submit once you figure it out (maybe less so if you have a lot of model released images?) in 2016 I made less than 10% of my SS total, in 2017 I made more than 10% of my SS total (SS went down, they went up). The 2018 total was mostly due to a few big sales one month. Without that month it would have been under 10% of SS.  For all time they are 1.31% of my stock totals (although I haven't been with them as long as all the sites).

I like that you can set prices and we get 50%. The few times I have messed with their search I was not impressed. They are on the order of CanStockPhoto and BS for me in terms of $ but with less sales and better rpd and better than FP, SF, and GL - an admittedly low bar.

I have one video clip there that never sold, so my videos are probably not helping me in the search.

Sounds like it might just be a temporary thing.  Surprisingly, January was my best month ever on Getty.  Actually more than double my best month ever.  I can't hate on that.

Except if buyers had spent that money on your work anywhere else you would have made more.

I didn't answer because I have almost no videos and thus almost no video sales.

The talk of the "wall" had a lot more mathematical plausibility to me rather than a cap - and does cap mean that your sales are lifted up if they fall below this cap? It seems if the cap was real you need to just open up another account - and why not stop submitting if your earnings don't change? 

I am not denying search changes squashing sales overnight. There are all kind of search shenanigans going on - based on image age, size, location, and who knows what else. (I certainly wouldn't put it past them to push .25 images up in the search, or images from newer contributors, which is pretty similar).

But if every good day is followed by down days, how do you get good weeks? or good 2 weeks to be followed by bad 2 weeks? I suppose they could program a random time period to turn sales on and off to level things out, but then why not do it on a larger time frame so that nobody would think there was a cap anyway?

Just ask to do it in writing and then add free cruises for life into the fine print and send it back.... If they don't read it - sweet.

I had one with an old release accepted and another with a new release recently (it was basically just the text of the SS release with all mention of SS removed). Both were photos of me which you would think they would be a little more lenient on the release, but no. They have rejected a bunch of images with old previously accepted releases in the last 3 or 4 months but also accepted some - it seems almost random. I think the dates were in US form but numbers eg month/date/year eg 1/2/18 would be Jan 2nd 2018

go to my account - online files, go to the image you want to change (you can search by keyword or image number) and then click on the title of the image you want to edit. Make your changes and hit "submit".

I guess the really big unknown is how will google change their image search to benefit getty or push down non-getty. 

Also I wonder if getty got some big $ as part of this, and the actual image usages will be for less (and that is what will get split in the usual getty unequal way).

I had that problem with some mani stones. I provided a translation, but they still didn't take it - it was a vague rejection, so who knows what they were really rejecting (like most of their rejections - too filtered or not filtered enough sort of rejection). I think a lot of them are just automated or perhaps the reviewer gets a potential automated rejection for non-english keywords and a lazy reviewer just accepts it.

I'm surprised Getty hasn't done this with Istock - Getty takes 80 % and then Istock takes 85% of what is left and from a $100 sale they pocket $93 and the artist get $3.

I wonder if any sites have a 3 distributor chain yet - all taking their cut.